WAYNE ROONEY is running into the best scoring form of his brief Premiership career.

WAYNE ROONEY is running into the best scoring form of his brief Premiership career.

But with England facing Sweden next week, there are still suggestions his best form comes in an England jersey.

Everton team-mate Kevin Campbell, however, says that has nothing to do with the quality of the squad at Goodison.

"Wayne's scary," said the Blues' striker. "But I don't think he plays better for England because he is surrounded by better players. It's because he has more time on the ball.

"He will play better for England throughout his career, because international football is not like the Premiership, all thunder and hell.

"For England he has time to look up, like in that first game against Turkey. He looked awesome that day.

"Sure there were better players around him too, but he still looked better than everyone else on the pitch.

"I think he's going to take the European Championship by storm this summer. But in the Premier League it will take time until he really knows what he's got.

"And we're not a Manchester United, Chelsea or Arsenal. He's having to grind it out like the rest of us."

A looming two-game ban for Rooney, coupled with Duncan Ferguson's possibly prolonged absence - means that Campbell is likely to come in for his first Everton start for several months.

And the man who finished top scorer in three of his first four seasons at Goodison says he is ready.

Actively involved in the launch of his own record label '2 Wikid', which releases its debut single 'Backstabbers' next month, he says: "I'm always the first into the training ground and I might make a couple of calls from the car park, but once I'm out of the car I would never let that interfere with football. I've got to be giving Everton 100 per cent.

"I've been on the bench a lot recently, but I've been in football a long time and it's not my style to get despondent about it. My style is to support whoever's playing and hope they look at you and think 'If I'm ever left out I'd like to follow his lead, and not whine about it'."